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Sun 14 Aug 2005 01:44
Confession time - Clanger
In 20 years of using my 5' x 4' Brenderup trailer, I've never been as stupid or careless as I was last week; I didn't fasten the rear hinged section on properly. Consequently it dropped off in front of chav-boy's Escort behind me. OK, he shouldn't have been so close and he shouldn't have been chatting on his mobile at the time, but apologies to him anyway.

Grateful thanks to the trucker and white van man who created a road-block on opposite sides of the road for a few seconds outside the Bridge House Hotel near Richmond so that I could retrieve the bit that had dropped off, and a slap on the wrist to the sports-bike rider who, unable or unwilling to stop behind the white van, treated the whole scenario as a chicane and scared the wits out of me.

Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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Sun 14 Aug 2005 20:00
Confession time - Ash
A few years ago i was towing my 'newly serviced by me' 5x3 trailer along my local by-pass. After about 3 miles i noticed the cars behind were hanging back a bit. At the next roundabout, the slowest one on my route, a loud bang occurred followed by the sight of a wheel overtaking my car and disappearing up a grass embankment. I managed to get off the road and spent the next 5 minutes salvaging wheel nuts of the roundabout whilst dodging traffic.
Of course there was the odd motorist who didn't slow down but most people just stopped and laughed. I did too a little later.

I now double check everything's tight and firmly affixed.
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